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    • Search Warrant Procedures in Seven Cities, 1984: [United States]

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    These data were collected in seven unnamed cities by the National Center of State Courts. Court cases were identified in one of three ways: (1) observation during real-time interviews, (2) court records of real-time interviews, or (3) court records of historical cases. The variables in this dataset include the rank of the law enforcement officer applying for the warrant, the type of agency applying for the warrant, general object of the search requested, specific area to be searched, type of crime being investigated, central offense named in the warrant, evidence upon which the warrant application is based, and disposition of the warrant application.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Justice
    Maintainer
    Identifier 2807
    Data First Published 1985-10-09T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 1992-02-16T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id a72c7ab7-20f6-438d-9ab9-169ee6803ab6
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:060
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > National Institute of Justice
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1a68a025ba5a73a83000592742fc04c2aaa6a111e21b731a2ad2b0f6192473ef
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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